Assignment: Survey of Aboriginal media – Students will conduct Internet and library research to complete the chart/template provided by the instructor for this assignment. Click here for template INCA 283 survey template

The goal of this assignment is to have students start to appreciate the range and variety of Aboriginal publications, broadcasters (radio and television) and other media producers in Canada. The completed assignment should include the completed chart with 20 organizations and a 500-word “reflection” about what was learned through researching this assignment. This assignment will be the basis of a discussion and exercise in class. No late assignments will be accepted.

Marks: Completed table/5; Reflection/5

3. Discussion: What do you already know about media – mainstream and Aboriginal?

“Otacimow: One Who Tells Stories” produced by Jarrett Crowe. Available at http://www.isuma.tv/jarrett-crowe/otacimow-one-who-tells-stories

5. Watch The Seeing Each Other: Canadian Media and Aboriginal People panel, held in Nanaimo, BC in January 2014, which examines the role Canada’s media plays in shaping the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Watch 28:45 – 1:02:00)

Don Kelly, Fish Out of Water 28:45 – 32:35

Duncan McCue 32:35 – 45:00

Judith Lavoie 45:00 – 53:00

Wab Kinew 53:00 – 1:02:00

References:

www.cbc.ca/aboriginal

www.riic.ca

Reading assignment for Week 2

There are two objectives for your reading/watching assignments:

I want you to get a sense of the way that literacy and books were interpreted when they were first introduced to “Indians” in the late 1500s and early 1600s. This is the subject of “The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands” by James Axtell in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp.300-309.\

I want you to learn about the Cherokee Phoenix, which is likely the first publication by “Indians” in North America. The first edition was released on February 21, 1828, and the editor included an explanation “To the Public,” which explained the purpose of the publication. There is also a good background explanation of The Cherokee Phoenix, produced by the Hunter Library. There are also a number of scholarly articles that are of interest, including on published in the Chronicles of Oklahoma in 1947, Cherokee Phoenix- Pioneer of Indian Journalism by Robert Martin pp. 102-118.

For background on Sequoyah (George Gist) and the Cherokee writing system he developed, you should watch the following short videos:

WEEK 2 – Monday, January 18

INTRODUCTION OF LITERACY

EARLY PUBLICATIONS

CANADIAN MEDIA AND NATIVE PEOPLE

SURVEY OF NATIVE MEDIA CANADA

Attendance

Announcements

Assignments – Assignment #1 due today

AGENDA

Review of Early Indian Newspapers in US and Canada

The Cherokee Phoenix was likely the first “Indian” publication in North America. It was published starting in 1828

The New Breed started publishing in 1969 under the editorship of Professor Howard Adams, a Metis from northern Saskatchewan who had been educated at the University of California during the 1960s and returned to Saskatchewan to teach at the U of S.

3. Discuss assignment: Major research project and presentation for the class??

4. Preview and assign chapters from Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers

“Seeing Red by Carmen Robertson and Mark Anderson – Each student to select one chapter and prepare a PowerPoint presentation for the class (max 10 slides, images on every slide, max. 20 words per slide)

Review PowerPoint of Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers in Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 38 (1) NOTE: max. 20 slides, images on every slide, max. 20 words per slide

3) Communication satellites radically increased the ability of CBC to get its programming to every community in Canada. In 1974, the Accelerated Coverage Plan (ACP) gave CBC marching orders to get its signal into every community in Canada with a population of at least 500 people.

Unreserved – a one-hour weekly network radio program hosted by Rosanna Deerchild

CBC Firsthand – Connie Walker on Residential Schools

And CBC documentaries that air on THE NATIONAL |

Including this one by Connie Walker about Makayla Sault, the 11-year-old Ontario First Nation girl who refused chemotherapy to pursue traditional indigenous medicine and other alternative treatments. Click on photo. (Story 1:54)

Including Duncan McCue’s story (18:43) about Marlene Bird that aired on Jan 29, 2015

Marlene Bird: Aboriginal woman’s story of struggle and survival – Marlene Bird was beaten, assaulted and set on fire six months ago. Duncan McCue shares her heart wrenching story of struggle and survival.

Electronic Drums: Aboriginal and Native Radio in Canada and the USA by Laurence Etling, Valdosta State University. Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, volume 1, number 1 (pages 119-133) November 2005

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Reading assignments:

Support for Aboriginal broadcasting in Canada has centred around Aboriginal language preservation and promotion. This report by Jennifer David, Debwe Communications Inc. is a great survey/summary of the state of Aboriginal language programming in 2004. Click here for Aboriginal_Language_and_Broadcasting_2004

Laurence Etling’s article Electronic Drums: Aboriginal and Native Radio in Canada and the USA (2005) is interesting because it expands the story to include Native American radio programming. (His article is in the Readings section of this blog site.)

Tremblay, Gaetan. 2012. “From Marshall McLuhan to Harold Innis or From the Global Village to the World Empire.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37 (2012), 561-575. Click here for article 2662-7688-2-PB

“The medium is the message” is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived…. The phrase was introduced in his most widely known book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964.[1] McLuhan proposes that a medium itself, not the content it carries, should be the focus of study. He said that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not only by the content delivered over the medium, but also by the characteristics of the medium itself.

For McLuhan, it was the medium itself that shaped and controlled “the scale and form of human association and action”.[2]

Extending the argument for understanding the medium as the message itself, he proposed that the “content of any medium is always another medium”[5] – thus, the content of writing is speech, print is that of writing and print itself is the content of the telegraph.

Hence in Understanding Media, McLuhan describes the “content” of a medium as a juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.[8] This means that people tend to focus on the obvious, which is the content, to provide us valuable information, but in the process, we largely miss the structural changes in our affairs that are introduced subtly, or over long periods of time.[7]As society’s values, norms, and ways of doing things change because of the technology, it is then we realize the social implications of the medium. These range from cultural or religious issues and historical precedents, through interplay with existing conditions, to the secondary or tertiary effects in a cascade of interactions[7] that we are not aware of.

Reading assignment for Week 8 :

Canadian Broadcasting Act, 1991 available at http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/B-9.01.pdf or click INCA 283 Broadcasting Actand

Roth, Lorna. “The Delicate Acts of Colour-Balancing”: Multiculturalism and Canadian Television Broadcasting Policies and Practices.” Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 23, No. 4. Available at http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1061/967 or click INCA 283 The Delicate Act of Colour Balancing by Lorna

Week 8 – Feb. 29

MAGIC IN THE SKY

Attendance

Announcements

Assignments

AGENDA

Strategies for completing APTN program review and presentation:

Ryan, Maureen, TV critic, Huffington Post. 2012. “How to be a TV critic.” Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maureen-ryan/how-to-be-a-tv-critic_b_1146322.html

Morgan, Kori. “How to Write a Television Show Review.” Available at http://www.ehow.com/how_2123321_write-television-show-review.html

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INCA Summer Institute 2016

The Summer Institute (INCA 200) is a core-required course in the INCA program, and is a 6-credit-hour course.

It is only offered in the summer—the course dates for 2016 are Monday, May 9 to Friday, June 24, 2016. The course times are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday.

You can also register in the INCA Internship (INCA 290) from July 4 to the end of August. The Internship is also 6-credit-hours, so you can complete 12-credit-hours over the course of the Spring/Summer semester. (For the purpose of student loans and some band funding programs, registering in 12 credit hours makes you eligible for funding--but check with your funder. If you require a confirmation letter, text me at 306-536-8069.)

INCA 200 and 290 are open to all students who are eligible to register at the University of Regina--especially Film and pre-Journalism students, for whom INCA 200 is recommended by their programs.

Students can also register as Casual students. If you want to complete only the INCA Summer Institute (INCA 200) this is a great option. For information and instructions, go to http://www.uregina.ca/cce/student-services/admitted/admission.html